AVERAGE JOE ON THE RAW directed by Daniel Hayhurst (USA, 2013)
At the age of 30, Seth Hayhurst was beginning to show the onset of middle age spread but could not by any stretch of the imagination be called obese.
Actually, you would say that he looked in pretty good physical shape. Mentally, however, was another story.
He’d gone through a messy divorce and ,although now in a good relationship, he realized he had ‘anger issues’ and attitude problems that needed to be addressed. He declares that he wanted “to be shiny again”.
Above all, he felt his life was slipping into a mundane pattern in which he was destined to become just another average American with declining health and lower energy levels.
In the introduction to this documentary, directed by his brother Daniel, he says: “I looked in the mirror and saw complacency. I saw a man settling into normalcy ……so, I could just fall in line with the rest of the people on the assembly line of commonplace OR ….. I could make a push at my limitless potential. I could try to reset my intelligently designed body to heal itself!”
Well, “a-wop bop-a loo-mop, a-lop . OBAMA-boom!!!!!”
This weekend, Steve, the brother of an American friend, told me of a scary experience last year when he broke his neck in a cycling accident.
